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Asdcsvax.1860 net.misc utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!sdcarl!sdcattb!sdcatta!phonlab!sdcsvax!davidson Tue Apr 20 07:48:49 1982 Re: Reply to the skeptics It is apparently not well known that there are no experiments which support the existence of any psi phenomena. None of the experiments which have claimed to show the existence of such phenomena are reproducible - and for those people who think that unreproducible experimental evidence is evidence for the existence of a capricious natural phenomenon, I must inform you that you can get unreproducible evidence for anything; an unreproducible experiment provides no evidence at all.

For those people who would like to know the results of followup investigations of well publicized claimed psychic events/experiments/etc (which are rarely generally published since they are not as catchy), I would like to recommend the magazine "The Skeptical Inquirer", Box 229, Central Park Station, Buffalo, N.Y. 14215. This quarterly journal costs $15 per year, and is the officiall journal of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). CSICOP's members include Paul Kurtz, James Randi, Isaac Asimov, Martin Gardner, B.F. Skinner and Carl Sagan.

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